Essays 31 - 60
gory detail, down to the whippings, punishments and general mind control games that overseers regularly played with their slaves. ...
(Shillington 20). Tunde Obadina, director of Africa Business Information Services, asserts that the "vast majority of slaves tak...
In five pages this research paper discusses the 17th and 18th century Atlantic slave trade and how profitability was affected by h...
In a paper consisting of seven pages the Athenian democracy represented by this Greek city state is considered along with an asses...
consider productive. II. Brutality Under Slavery It is hard to fathom the concept of accepting the ownership of people but du...
In 10 pages this paper discusses how virtue is depicted in the slave narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A...
"In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 279). These men were better equipped -- intellectu...
followed the North Star in the Big Dipper to get oriented on which direction to travel (Curtis 34). Hidden within the lyrics of ...
book appears to be a candid recollection by someone who was not troubled enough by what he was doing to stop it. Theodore Conneau...
This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...
In five pages this fight as presented in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is examined as evidence of the freed slave's ...
In five pages this research paper examines cultural assumptions and how they influence historical sources pertaining to slave trad...
In five pages this paper discusses that slavery was preferable to the slave and slave owner of the antebellum American South to fr...
number of slave workers needed to supply this demand. By way of a history lesson, it should be noted that it was the Portuguese w...
sold to Africans and only rarely to Europeans" (Harms, 2003; 246). These particular slaves were often kept by the Africans if it w...
occurring in this era between slavery and freedom. We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were in...
positive influences for the slaves and one can say that Solomon Northups account is truly dismal. Northup was however not owned by...
on pious airs, she would present herself as she was and play off of the conventional slave stereotype. Then, when the social main...
human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she wa...
Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...
ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...
when those realities overlap, but that hardly seems the case in the discussion of these two works. The Narrative of Bethany Veney,...
difficult to estimate how many Africans they took across the Indian Ocean as slaves. However, it is very likely that the number w...
sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...
slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...
time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...
concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...
all the freedoms in the world. He even has the freedom to own another human being. The slave is made to live and work when and w...
morning (Spartacus International). A slave at a different location reported being given a "peck of sifted cornmeal, a dozen and a ...
including at least some of the traditional African dance movements in their mocking. In fact, Ellison said that the slaves were "b...